In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.

Independent means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want. It's where you feel the director, not a machine, at work. It doesn't matter where the money comes from. It matters how much freedom the director has to work with his or her team. That's how I personally define independent movies.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.